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1997 Riesling Smaragd Loibenberg

Wine Details
Producer

Alzinger

Place of Origin

Austria

Loiben

Wachau

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Riesling

Vintages
201620152013201220092008200720062005200420032002200019981997
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My initial meeting with this highly respected Wachau vintner coincided with his first year exporting wine (alas, just one) to America. In 1983, Alzinger withheld some of his fruit from the Dinstlgut coop for his own vinification and within a few years he found himself 100% estate bottling. Recent vintages have witnessed greater reliance on whole-cluster pressing and vinification in stainless steel, and his top '97 Smaragd wines were quite sleek and reductive. (Terry Theise Estate Selections, Jessup, MD)